why do they say, "I'm feeling kind of blue?" whats blue got 2 do with it?

Answer 1

Ok, here comes too much information.....

The word 'blue' has been associated with the idea of melancholia or depression since the Elizabethan era. The American writer, Washington Irving is credited with coining the term 'the blues,' as it is now defined, in 1807. The earlier (almost entirely *****) history of the blues musical tradition is traced through oral tradition as far back as the 1860s. When African and European music first began to merge to create what eventually became the blues, the slaves sang songs filled with words telling of their extreme suffering and privation.

During the decades of the thirties and forties, the blues spread northward with the migration of many blacks from the South and entered into the repertoire of big-band jazz. The blues also became electrified with the introduction of the amplified guitar. In some Northern cities like Chicago and Detroit, during the later forties and early fifties, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, and Elmore James among others, played what was basically Mississippi Delta blues, backed by bass, drums, piano and occasionally harmonica, and began scoring national hits with blues songs. At about the same time, T-Bone Walker in Houston and B.B. King in Memphis were pioneering a style of guitar playing that combined jazz technique with the blues tonality and repertoire.

In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm and blues songs. Since the sixties, rock has undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and B.B. King--and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generation of blues players like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a new generation listeners to the blues.

So, suffice to say that the music of the "blues" has nothing to do with the color blue and everything to do with oppression and sorrow and over the years has come to be part of our venacular. "Feeling blue" is the same thing as sad.

Answer 2

when people say that they are feeling kind of blue what they are say is that they are feeling down in the dumps, blue is what people refer to as being sad or lonesome. I have days where I am feeling blue it's just how people feel

Answer 3

You have asked a good question!

The longer answer below is terrific.

The concept of "blue" being associated with depression is a common one.

See the attached web site for some more information.

Peter

Answer 4

None , as a results of fact i'm no longer terrified of the regulation ... as a results of fact I haven't any reason to be.. Now, there are loopy human beings in the international who would do undesirable issues with them , Now it relatively is a various tale .. That scares me.. .

Answer 5

The colour Blue is the colour of sadness,Loneliness and all those other low emotions.Its the colour that says am not okay,but i will live.Just like Black is the colour of death.Its just a fugure of speech.Dont take it literally.

Answer 6

its a weird color you Know, red is loud, pink is soft, white is too frequent, black is strong, green is for getting high and all the other colors except blue are just combinations so blue i the color of mixed emotions.

Answer 7

maybe the 'blues' music is related to the expression, cos it is kind of slow and depressing (in my opinion anyway)

Answer 8

it must be from music , u know " blues" . they probably consider it as a sad colour!

Answer 9

it's just a saying